just to interject (Score 1)

I would like to add my 2 cents here, many people have valid points about the unsociable nature of online game players and have proposed a challenge to these people to have somthing in common with you... this is to establish if these people would still be your friends. this is to say nothing of the depth of frindship in general and quite judgemental. I agree that online personas are different but they are just that, it is up to the people involved to make more or less of the 'online aquatiance'. I meet people everyday and they are no better or worse then people that i have met online or have bought things from on ebay or left postings for on craigs list. I also agree that it is a little awkward when people are talking WoW shop and i only have a vauge idea of what they are saying but i make the same effort to join the conversation as i do with people who have different offline hobbies. generalizations may be faster and sometimes right but that does not make them any different then any other prejudice. In closing... i do not play WoW, i have tried it for a few hours... i have had a few friends whos lives revolve around it, it does not bother me... if people want to spend there time online then let them there is a great difference between an avid gamer and somone with "interenet syndrome"... and at last maybe it is better that you are friends (even superficially) with somone who you would not be friends with because underr normal circomstances i.e. age, race, or gender.